1]6 
[April, 
cells in one or two rows on the nnder-snrface of slender twigs.* Its 
sting is very sharp at the time ; fortunately the irritation passes off al¬ 
most completely in half-an-hour or so ; unfortunately the nests are very 
numerous on all the drier slopes where there is any jungle. 
Butterflies are not numerous in either island. On hTarcondam one 
species {Cynthia erota) is plentiful, and another (Huphina Uchinosa) is 
common; the other species are, at least at the season of the writer’s visit, 
but poorly represented. On Barren Island all the species seen are, at 
that season, particularly scarce. The writer collected on Narcondam a 
few of most of the kinds seen, and during his visit to Barren Island he 
had the pleasure of the company of Mr. R. Wimberley, of the Port Blair 
Commission, whose ardour as a lepidopterist is well-known to his Indian 
brethren. As Mr. Wimberley came on purpose to collect the butterflies 
of Barren Island the writer paid but little attention to them ; he had 
hoped that Mr. Wimberley might prepare a note, which could not fail 
to be highly interesting, on the species he had collected. Mr. Wimberley 
has not seen his way to do this; he has, however, most obligingly 
supplied the writer with a list of the species obtained by him ; this 
list is given below verbatim. As regards the specimens collected on 
Narcondam the writer has had the privilege of the kind assistance of 
Mr. dehiiceville, who has most obligingly examined the small collec¬ 
tion and named the species.f 
List of Butterflies seen on Barren Island. 
(Prepared by Mr. R. Wimberley, Port Blair.) 
1. Htpolimnas bolina Linn. c? two. 
2. Nacaduba ccelestis DeNicev, Several. 
3. Casi’alius (species, could not tell). 
* To tbe writer’s perhaps prejudiced imagination it appeared that it preferred 
making its nest on Capparis sepiaria to building elsewhere. The arrangement is 
excellent; an outlying sprawling branch hooks itself unobserved to one’s leg or one’s 
arm ; the next movement sets the whole bush a-shaking and before one is aware 
his head and face form objects of attack for a whole army of angry wasplets. The 
nests, from their shape and situation, are particularly difficult to see, and after 
forming the firmest resolve to be more wary next time, one only knows that he has 
blundered into another nest when it is necessary to pick the creatures off his face 
and from out his hair. So far from trying to obtain specimens our principal object 
was to keep out of the creature’s way. 
f While thanking Mr. de Nic^ville for his kindness in naming this small collec¬ 
tion, the writer would take this opportunity of mentioning that Mr. de Niceville has 
also kindly pointed out that the butterfly mentioned in Jour. Ms. 8oa. Beng. lix, 
pt. 2, p. 256, as feeding on Galotropis gigantea, and as a recent introduction into the 
Andamans is not Danais genutia, as there stated, but Banais chrysippus, 
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